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Issue Details: First known date: 2002... no. 88 Summer 2002 of Island est. 1990- Island
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Contents

* Contents derived from the , 2002 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Children of Cadmusi"After kissing earth the fever", Alison Daniel , single work poetry (p. 69)
Old Car Bodiesi"Says who? says she. Move 'em.", Jennie Herrera , single work poetry (p. 70-72)
Days of Gracei"The calm sea, an autumn day", Tony Lintermans , single work poetry (p. 74)
Apostrophei"Poetry is our physician, and poetry will heal us.", Jordie Albiston , single work poetry (p. 75)
Collected and Selected, Thomas Shapcott , single work review
— Review of Collected Poems : 1970-1998 John Forbes , 2001 collected work poetry ; Mulberry Leaves : New and Selected Poems 1970-2001 Robert Adamson , 2001 selected work poetry ; (p. 76-80)
Hello, Goodbye, Helen Addison-Smith , single work short story (p. 81-86)
More 69 than '68, Jonathan Dawson , single work review
— Review of The Pram Factory : The Australian Performing Group Recollected Tim Robertson , 2001 single work criticism ; (p. 87-89)
Three Poets, Judith Beveridge , single work review
— Review of Flight Animals Bronwyn Lea , 2001 selected work poetry ; Fishwife Meredith Wattison , 2001 selected work poetry ; Heroic Money Gig Ryan , 2001 selected work poetry ; (p. 90-97)
The Catch, Lisa Morisset , single work short story (p. 98-100)
Power of the Natural World, Elizabeth Dean , single work review
— Review of Dirt Music Tim Winton , 2001 single work novel ; (p. 101-102)
Acupuncture for Turtles, Pat Skinner , single work short story

I miss his arms the most. I miss being inside the magic turtle-shape Massi would make to protect me, a golden-armed green-jumpered turtle. I was safe then, his little rabbit sister, and now I will climb up the headland with Ruby and ask Gamera the Mighty to bring Massi back. I wrap Ruby in a silk scarf and tuck her tenderly in my backpack, look briefly around my bedroom, my burrow. There are no posters on my walls, no silverchair, Thorpedo or Johnny Depp, whom I secretly adore, no idols hanging on my walls, where they would have to squirm and try not to grimace at the sight of my twisted smile. Every week I send Johnny Depp a bouquet of silver invisible roses, tied with a frothy organza ribbon, but if Massi suspects that I do this, he has never said anything; he has kept my secret, as he keeps all my secrets and sorrows, safe beneath his shell. I close the door, go downstairs...

(Source: Informit)

 (p. 103-108)
The Bird in the Egg, Stephen Holden , single work short story (p. 119-122)
Burning Bright, Warwick Hadfield , single work review
— Review of Tyger, Tyger Michael Hyde , 2001 single work novel ; (p. 123-125)
A Refreshing State of the Art, Michael Sharkey , single work review
— Review of New Music : An Anthology of Contemporary Australian Poetry 2001 anthology poetry ;
'John Leonard's survey of Australian verse samples the work of ninetv-six poets whose work has appeared with some frequency in the decade since the appearance of his first Anthology of Contemporary Australian Poetry (Melbourne: Houghton Mifflin, 1990). He has included a poem of mine in this second collection, and I am agreeably surprised to find myself in the company of younger and older writers whose works I have admired from a distance, or whom I have had the pleasure to hear and meet at readings in several States.' (Introduction)
 
 (p. 126-128)
Montgomery and Me, Johnny Quartet , single work short story (p. 129-132)
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